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# Santa Monica City working toward year-round shelters
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-city-working-toward-year-round-shelters-editor/
- Published: 2003-09-18T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:57:22.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless, Homelessness

*By Julie Rusk Human services manager City of Santa Monica*

There was a misperception in Kenneth McCrae’s letter (SMDP, Sept. 15, page 4) about the City of Santa Monica opting out of the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority’s (LAHSA) regional year-round shelter pilot program. In fact, Santa Monica has been working actively with LAHSA’s executive director, Mitchell Netburn, to extend the regional year-round shelter program to include the westside. The addition of more year-round county-funded shelter beds in our region is critical to better address homelessness — and to match the Santa Monica’s year-round efforts to get homeless people housed and permanently off the streets.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 18, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/091803.pdf?ref=smdp.com)